Master of Science [M.S] [Sustainable Destination Development] From Uppsala University

Tourist destinations across the world face major challenges. With less visitors, their economies will be threatened; with more visitors, their social, cultural and ecological sustainability will be threatened. How can visits become sustainable? What is required to achieve sustainable visitor locations, and how can we ensure they will remain this way??

The Master Programme in at ?is a new programme aimed at those of you who want to develop cross-border, international key competencies in this field.

You can choose between three specialisations ? Entrepreneurship for Destination Development, Applied Heritage Politics and Sustainable Nature-Based Destinations ? to develop your desired academic profile. If you opt to graduate after one academic year, you need to select one specialisation. For the full two-year Master's programme, you need to select two. You will be studying themes such as ecological and cultural sustainability, the shape and importance of locations, management of natural and cultural resources, the principles of environmental assessment, entrepreneurship and strategic leadership. You will also have the opportunity to develop your own projects within the scope of the programme themes.

Career

The tourism sector contributes with nine percent of the world GDP, and is continuously growing. The tourism sector is becoming more important outside the industrial world and therefore increasingly crucial to the development of the world as a whole. However, the tourism sector is also facing more and more serious sustainability challenges, socially, ecologically and economically. There is thus great need for the competences you get from the Master Programme in Sustainable Destination Development.

This programme prepares you to work on sustainability issues in the tourism sector in regions across the world, at destination companies, within the private tourism sector or as an entrepreneur. You can choose a career focused on development, strategy and management, business development, sustainability and CSR, and innovation in both the private and public sector.? You will learn how to push innovation processes targeted at the tourism sector, and you will become familiar with how to start and operate tourism enterprises in any part of the world, especially in tourist-intensive regions.